The Cable Industry Has Come a Long Way…

Featured Speaker: Tony Werner, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Liberty Media Corporation (now Liberty Global)

The Donald W. Levenson 2004 Lecture, which occurred on Tuesday, September 14, 2004, was part of an ongoing education series designed to inform and inspire a new generation of cable telecommunications inventors and creators.

TONY WERNER

Anthony G. Werner is Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Liberty Media (now Liberty Global). Prior to Liberty, Werner was the Executive Vice President of Strategic Technology for Qwest Communications. Werner spent seven years at AT&T Broadband (formerly Tele-Communications, Inc.), mainly as the Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. In this capacity he was responsible for all engineering, technical operations, purchasing functions, and strategic technology direction for the broadband division. During his tenure, Werner was directly involved in the launch of new products at AT&T, including AT&T Digital Cable, high-speed cable Internet, and local telephone services.

Prior to AT&T, Werner spent thirteen years with Rogers Cable Systems, Ltd. in the US and Canada. During that time he held several positions, including Vice President of Operations, Engineering. While in Canada, he was responsible for the construction, activation, and operation of a fiber-based regional network that served more than two million customers. He was also the technology leader for the launch of Viewer’s Choice, the first national Canadian pay-per-view service. He was the Chairman of the Society of Cable Television Engineers 2003 Tech Expo program sub-committee and was the past Chairman of the 1998 Tech Expo. He is also an active member of the National Cable Television Association (NCTA) and CableLabs.

Werner was included as one of Cable’s 100 Most Influential People by CableFAX in 1998 and 1999. He received the NCTA’s Vanguard Award for Science and Technology in 2000. He has published several technical papers relating to network availability, network powering, regional hub architecture, the effects of cascading digital systems, and hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) traffic engineering. Werner is also the chairman of the SCTE International Advisory Board on Standards and chairman of CableLabs’ Enhanced Services Deployment Working Group.